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Variable Geo, or simply VG, is a series of [[Video Game Video Games]] created by the company Technical Group Laboratory (TGL). Although most entries in the series are Fighting Games, the last three to date have been of the Visual Novel variety.

The following is a list of characters who have appeared in the series, separated by debut title.

== Debuted in VG: Variable Geo 

==

=== Yuka Takeuchi 

===

The Heroine of most games in the series. She's a karate practicioner looking to challenge herself and keep moving forward in her craft... In other words, she wants To Be a Master. She firmly believes that Defeat Means Friendship, and that people can communicate through combat what cannot be said in words.

Associated Tropes:

her breasts are still growing

  • The Empath: In the first OVA series, Yuka is able to get glimpses

into the mind of her opponents when she gets hit by their Ki Attacks. She gets disturbed when this doesn't work on an opponent.

  • Heroic BSOD: After watching Miranda Jahana kill off K-1 and K-2, she

started having serious doubts about her Defeat Means Friendship philosophy, causing her to lose her powers until Tamao helps her find confidence again.

Kotono Mitsuishi (anime).)

OVAs.

attacks.

The Empath.

=== Chiho Masuda 

===

A Ninja who got sick of life in the shadows and decided to run away and live life on her own terms. She hopes to use the tournament prize money to fund her new, free life.

Associated Tropes:

Ninja

then subsequently seemingly performs a Heroic Sacrifice when she guides a Combined Energy Attack formed by the other girls straight into the plane that she and the Big Bad are on board. She then turns up at her own funeral, no worse for wear.

in a fight thanks to her Ninja upbringing, she's a rather normal, emotional teenage girl when not in combat. It's so jarring that Yuka has told her that her ability to control her emotions like that would make her a perfect actress.

  • Ryu and Ken: In an unusual version, Chiho initially had a very similar

moveset to Yuka instead of being a Fragile Speedster like most Ninja.

=== Jun Kubota 

===

A former olympic-level amateur wrestler. She was sent home in disgrace after refusing to let up on an injured opponent, and branded with the nickname "Bonecrusher". She initially fought in the tournaments as a Blood Knight looking for some skulls to crack, but after being befriended by Yuka, is seemingly just in it for the lulz.

Associated Tropes:

  • Badass Biker: She rides around a rather nice sport bike when not on

duty or mixing it up.

also had a rather extreme distaste for Eagle Land prior to meeting Erina.

pronoun]] is "ore".

stuffed animals.

=== Manami Kusunoki 

===

A 16-year old Loli Idol Singer from Osaka. Entered strictly for the chance to earn the prize money, although she never reveals what exactly it is she wants it for. Has a strange fixation with the other competitors' breasts which invariably leads to gropage.

Associated Tropes:

  • Catgirl: She invokes the image with her energetic yet selfish, moody

behavior and a pair of gloves that look like cat paws.

every use of her Neko Rocket Punch means she's going to lose some of her own health.

of her heavy cat paw gloves at the opponent... And then snaps it back too hard, causing it to hit herself in the head.

status away from her.)

=== Kaori Yanase 

===

A 19-year-old Meganekko computer technician. She fights using Tae Kwan Do, and also makes use of a computer to analyze her opponents' strengths and weaknesses. She fights both to improve herself, and to make up for her humiliating loss to Reimi during her first time in the V.G. tournament.

Associated Tropes:

winds up becoming the Voice Actress behind the main character of a Magical Girl show.

=== Reimi Jahana 

===

Reimi is the young heiress of the Jahana Group, the Mega Corp responsible for running the V.G. tournaments. She was also the Final Boss of the first game.

Associated Tropes:

game and somewhat in the OVA.

Miranda, is the Woman Behind The Woman for the series.

lover/assistant, who doesn't sem to mind much at all.

arrogance, Reimi simply will not abide by rule breaking and disorderly conduct in her tournament.

== Debuted in Advanced VG 

==

=== Satomi Yajima 

===

Satomi is an old friend of Yuka's, and a fellow martial artist. She enters the V.G. tournament for the sake of her Ill Boy little brother, Daisuke, who she's responsible for taking care of as his only living relative.

Associated Tropes:

tournament this way after Daisuke's poisoned.

Gender Flipped version of Kyo Kusanagi.

with Yuka this way.

hair is always messy. Satomi herself constantly bemoans this fact, but her fans see it as her charm point.

=== Ayako Yuuki 

===

"Body-conscious" waitress\dancer at the club "SoTO". Does charity work for the homeless in her spare time. She also lures out rapists, muggers, and stalkers before beating them within an inch of their lives.

Associated Tropes:

=== Erina "Eririn" Goldsmith 

===

American expatriate owner of the restaraunt "The Rival"; she and the other waitresses there work in Playboy Bunny outfits. She fights and works to earn enough money to bring her grandmother to Japan to stay with her. Her fighting style uses several fire-based attacks based on Ki Attacks and the flame from a lighter she carries.

Associated Tropes:

foreigner.

pulls Jun into forming one of these with her.

  • Broken Bird: Being bullied as a foreigner since childhood has filled

her with a rage that fuels her attacks.

hasn't quite gotten rid of all of the tendencies.

in a bunny costume.

  • Gag Boobs: Erina takes the large size of her breasts to the logical

extreme...her ability to hold a lighter between her melons is a part of her fighting strategy

Q-Bee, Bulleta/B.B.Hood]]) in the games, Yuko Nagashima ([[Dead or Alive Tina Armstrong]], Mimori Kiryuu, [[Martian Successor Nadesico Erina Won]]) in the OVA.)

relationship with her grandmother.

=== K-1 

===

One of Miranda Jahana's Hybrid super soldiers made to capture anybody strong enough to beat Reimi. He (yes, [[The One Guy he]]) is beaten by Yuka and [[You Have Failed Me killed off by his "sister" K-2]].

Associated Tropes:

=== K-2 

===

K-1's older sister figure and killer, she wound up [[Hoist By His Own Petard being killed off by Miranda after also failing to nab Yuka]].

Associated Tropes:

shoots her in the head.

== Introduced in VG II: Clash of Cabalistic Goddess: 

==

=== Yumiko Watanuki 

===

One of Kotoe Kashima's bodyguards (specializing in Taichi Chuan), she pulls double-duty by also working at a Chinese restaurant. She, along with Terumi and Kotoe were Retconned out of the series; but Yumiko must have been somebody's favorite, as she was Rescued From the Scrappy Heap and made a comeback in [[Super Deformed VG Max]].

Associated Tropes:

notable for being laughably bad, even back before the series started using Voice Actresses.

over how cute Yumiko is when they met.

had been a dancer while living in Hong Kong and incorporated it into her Taichi.

=== Terumi Kannazuki 

===

The second of Kotoe's bodyguards, Terumi fights with Muay Thai kickboxing, and despite working for someone like Kotoe, she stands very squarely on the "Idealism" side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, and doesn't tolerate wrongdoing. She was Retconned out of the series.

Associated Tropes:

=== Kotoe Kashima 

===

Reimi's childhood Rival who, after hearing about Reimi's loss to Yuka in VG, decided to Kick the Dog and rub things in Reimi's face by holding her own tournament and beat not only Reimi, but everybody else, at her own game. She [[Retcon suffered the exact same fate as Terumi]].

Associated Tropes:

== Debuted in Advanced VG 2: 

==

=== Tamao Mitsurugi 

===

The main heroine of AVG 2, Tamao is a Hero Worshipper who wants to be just like Yuka, whom she admires. She has an uncanny talent for fighting and manages to defeat many long-time favorites, eventually getting Yuka out of her Heroic BSOD from the previous tournament.

Associated Tropes:

Joke Character for VG Max.

the prize money to have a robot double of Yuka built to satisfy her fangirlism.

years old. [[Lampshade Hanging Manami was not happy about having her position usurped]].

for most of AVG 2's storyline, but is [[Ryu and Ken just different enough to count as a character in her own right]] since Yuka's still playable.

=== Kyoko Kirishima 

===

Chiho's cousin and a fellow member of the family clan of Ninja. She was sent by their grandfather to bring Chiho back, but ultimately decided against it after being befriended by Chiho and Tamao.

Associated Tropes:

towards the end of Advanced VG 2.

  • Ninja: Although she doesn't quite look the part.
  • The Stoic: All the time, unlike Chiho.
  • Stone Wall: Her attack power is relatively low, but her defense is

high, as is the damage output from her counter throws.

=== Saki Shinjou 

===

A Psycho for Hire whom Miranda Jahana uses as her own personal Battle Butler. She's out to make sure that none of the other girls get in the way of her boss' plans. Has something of a Personal grudge against Reimi for defying Miranda.

Associated Tropes:

=== Material 

===

Miranda's latest-model Hybrid Designer Babies. A set of Single Minded Twins with identical powers. Miranda set them on Yuka and Tamao, but they were defeated and unceremoniously deactivated by Miranda.

Associated Tropes:

Palette Swap has blue.

  • Palette Swap: Because they're effectively the same character, the two

separate pallettes are used to differentiate between them.

thanks to Miranda.

=== Miranda Jahana 

===

The Woman Behind The Woman during Advanced VG. She's a Corrupt Corporate Executive bent on creating and mass-producing the ultimate fighting machine for a purpose that isn't very well elaborated on. To this end, she used her own daughter (Reimi) as a testbed, putting her through Training From Hell, abusing her when she faltered and never once praising or letting up on her when she succeeded. After she decided her daughter was of no more use, she discarded her and went into seclusion, controling things from behind the scenes while using the tournament to test out her "Hybrids", Designer Babies made to carry out her orders. She's killed when a Combined Energy Attack formed by Yuka and company collides with her personal jet.

Associated Tropes

spirit is looking to take over a suitably powerful body. She gets Satomi for a short while, leading to an I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight.

by her husband and Reimi.

team Combined Energy Attack.

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